Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 155

?Multi-Scale? Eberhard & Co., La Chauxde- Fonds, ?Chronographe?. Made in the 1940s. Fine and rare, large, stainless steel "Staybrite" gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. To be sold without reserve

USD 1,800 - 2,200

EUR 1,400 - 1,700

Sold: USD 1,770

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. Champagne with painted Arabic numerals and indexes, outer minute and chronograph divisions, outermost red telemeter and concentric tachometer graduations, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute registers dials. Blued steel "baton" hands. M. Cal. 16???, rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3-7

Good

Oxidized

Movement: 3-6*

Good

Slightly oxidized

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-29-01

Good

Lacking elements

HANDS Original